Notorious #MSSEN blogger Johnson banned from Twitter

Looks like California blogger Charles C. Johnson -- who made news in the nasty battle between U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel last year -- has been banned from Twitter for good.

Johnson, described by McDaniel as an "investigative journalist," and by The Washington Post as a "far-right mega-troll," had his Twitter account permanently suspended on Sunday after he asked for donations to help "take out" activist DeRay McKesson, who's been involved with protests after police shootings in Baltimore and Missouri. Several media outlets report that subsequent new Twitter accounts Johnson tried to open were also suspended.

Johnson's bombastic reports and accusations in the Mississippi Senate race drew national attention to his Gotnews site, particularly after he published a story and audio interview with Stevie Fielder of Meridian. Fielder claimed he received thousands of dollars in envelopes from a Cochran campaign staffer to pay people in the African-American community around Meridian $15 each for their vote in the June 24 GOP runoff. Fielder later recanted much of what he had said in Johnson's report. Attorney General Jim Hood, who said he found no evidence of vote buying but that Fielder had been paid to lie, subpoenaed Johnson to appear before a Lauderdale County grand jury, but Johnson refused to appear and accused Hood and other Mississippi officials of a "witch hunt" against him.

Johnson, who has described himself as "the Nelson Mandela of Twitter," had his account temporarily suspended in October after he posted the address and other personal info about someone he said was exposed to the Ebola virus.